OverviewShadow Moon, a recently released ex-con, meets the mysterious Wednesday on a flight home from his wife's funeral. When Wednesday offers Shadow a job to be his bodyguard and driver, Shadow doesn't yet know that he's living in a world with old gods and new gods. He doesn't yet know that the old gods are in danger of fading away from existence and being forgotten as new, more superficial belief systems replace them. Shadow proceeds to escort Wednesday around the country, rounding up the old gods as they go, in preparation for the biggest clash the world has ever seen.